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Exhibition by senior art students opens at St. Bonaventure's Quick Center

Apr 10, 2014 | ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., April 10, 2014 — Works by two St. Bonaventure University seniors will be featured in this year’s Senior Art Exhibition, which opens Friday, April 11, at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on campus.
An opening reception will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery, located on the Quick Center’s second floor. Refreshments will be served.
The exhibition, titled “A Kiss of Color,” features works by senior art students Hannah Walker and Tianne Parker. It runs through May. 9.
“Hannah and Tianne have worked really hard at putting some interesting work together. It should be a really fantastic show,” said Anne Mormile, a lecturer in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at St. Bonaventure.
Walker, of Portville, N.Y., will graduate in May with majors in visual and performing arts and art history. She describes her work as “primarily realistic with a touch of fantasy,” and in this exhibition she includes a variety of portraits in different mediums and other pieces including a landscape and a fictional creature.
“All works are based on aspects of my life,” said Walker. “From my favorite fishing spot to my friends and family, I capture what I find unique about them in whatever medium I am feeling at the time.”
For her senior exhibition, Parker, from the Bronx, N.Y., has produced a series of watercolors and graphic design images with a focus on the power and use of color within a work.
Parker said she sees visual imagery as a universal language, an expression of our emotions, thoughts and experiences. “I have found this to be a powerful instrument to represent my personal reality,” she said. “Continual exploration of varying art mediums and techniques has offered me an outlet to explore my mind’s eye.”
Galleries at the Quick Center are open year round at no charge. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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